To finish, a clear coat was applied.įor the tile, card, and other holders, thin plywood was used. After sanding, pieces were cleaned with compressed air as well as mineral spirits to remove all remaining sawdust. The last part was an actual cut through the entire material to create individual tile pieces.įrom here all pieces were sanded with a random orbital sander with progressive grits of 120 to 220.The second pass was an engraving of both thin line parts of the design, as well as to clean up the edges of the rastering.This creates a shading like effect, best seen on the Horse (Sheep) tile. The first pass was a raster engraving over the face of the wood.going back to the factory supplied cardboard tiles will never be the same :) We laser cut our custom designed tiles at the time of order so that we. Several passes were made in order to get the desired effects: Our custom game tiles and complete 'Settlers of Catan' Games are simply stunning You will be hosting every game with this set. From here, all designs were cut into the wood sheets. It was bought as 4/4 stock and resawn to.

Wood UsedĪll the wood was sourced from a local saw mill. Designs were ported to a dxf file format the required file format used for importing in the laser cutter software. The designs were converted using a mixture of Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator. This project takes no credit for the designs used the primary work performed was to port file formats to something that can be used by the laser cutter used to make this project. The artwork and line work for this project were primarily sourced from this Reddit post.

I have no affliation with Mayfair and by downloading or utilizing the files in here you acknowledge this information and any risk that may come with using contents in this repository. An original copy of the game is required and will need to be purchased in order to have all pieces required for gameplay. The build includes a dice roller pushing a. This set cannot replace the official Catan (Settlers of Catan) board game produced by Mayfair. After cleaning up the edges of the wood with a chisel and staining it, it’s time to put the circuit boards in, wire them up and program them. The inspiration for this project was a post made on Reddit, which is where artwork and files were primarily sourced. This is a loosely Game of Thrones themed Settlers of Catan (Catan) board meant to be an accessory to the base game and expansion.

Wooden catan board